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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Megalopolis"”.
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Development Impacts of high-speed rail : megalopolis formation and implications for Portugal's Lisbon-Porto High-Speed Rail Link
… indirect implication of HSR is the potential for megalopolis formation created by fusion of multiple cities linked by HSR. An overall consensus is present in the existing theoretical literature as to what development impacts may be from the HSR investment, including the importance of the resulting …
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ΓΕΩΦΥΣΙΚΕΣ ΕΡΕΥΝΕΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΕΡΙΟΧΗ ΤΗΣ ΛΕΚΑΝΗΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΠΟΛΗΣ
… MADE TO INVESTIGATE THE SUBSURFACE STRUCTURE OF MEGALOPOLIS BASINBY USING GEOPHYSICAL METHODS (SEISMOLOGICAL, GRAVITY, RESISTIVITY MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS). MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE SCOPE OF THIS STUDY DEALS WITH THE DETERMINATION OF THE SEISMIC BACKGROUND OF THE BASIN, THE DETECTION OF ACTIVE OR …
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Bill -n- (kris'tl) at OSB, Chicago
… urban landscape? This investigation engages the megalopolis and its full grotesqueness in terms of scale and intensity; experiments with a range of strategies attempting to emphasize the individual without combating the potency of the urban environment; prismatically separates and intensifies the …
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Mobile Transactions Architecture: Lagos---rethinking the drive through market
… anticipates a greater densification of the Lagos megalopolis by appropriating the site of future superstructure abutments connecting the Island to the mainland. The principal design approach renegotiates and de-optimizes the existing motorway interchange geometry and technology to facilitate a …
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Xochimilco es Hogar : place attachment and belonging in Mexico City
Mexico City is a sprawling megalopolis of 22 million inhabitants with new residents moving into the city daily. The city's growth is spatially uneven; the southern delegation of Xochimilco has been experiencing rapid urbanization whereas the city center has experienced less. The thesis focuses on …
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Villages of Delhi : towards inclusivity and plurality in the urbanizing countryside
… rural to urban conversion generating a sprawling megalopolis, which is increasingly fragmenting into islands of high-end gated residential enclaves and ghettoized villages. The resultant urban form is an archipelagic state that supports only certain types of urban citizenship, systematically …
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Cultivating Capacity in the Northeast's Native Seed and Plant Supply Chain
… industrialization. Cities and suburbs across the megalopolis are replanting forests, softening coastlines, restoring wetlands, harnessing plants and microbes to remediate brownfield sites, and planting native vegetation on rooftops and old elevated railway lines. These activities spanning from the …
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Mobile-mentory mobile documentaries in the mediascape
… documentary portrays the contemporary Japanese megalopolis through the lens of a mobile phone and records the mobile filmmaking process. Simultaneously, the project experimented with mobile phones as viewing devices for ‘micro-movies’. Through curating an international mobile art exhibition and …
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Modernisation and the New Left in sixties Britain
… example of New Left attitudes towards suburbia, megalopolis and the cultural geography of the North- South divide. 1968 is explored as the moment when the New Left engaged in a particular form of spatial politics: certain types of space were valued for their psychological characteristics, their …
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The City as a national growth machine : city-building and the role of urban development in South Korea's political and economic transitions
… country as late as 1970, rapidly became a modern megalopolis and global front-runner in terms of ambitious and pioneering urban investments. Although South Korea's successful industrialization could be a short answer to this question, the capital city's predominant growth becomes rather puzzling …
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FEMALE FLÂNERIE BETWEEN MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY. THE CASES OF DOROTHY RICHARDSON’S PILGRIMAGE AND RÉGINE ROBIN’S MÉGAPOLIS. LES DERNIERS PAS DU FLÂNEUR
The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a revival of critical debates around, on the one hand, Walter Benjamin’s understanding offlânerie, the practice of street walking in the nineteenth-century metropolis, and on the other hand the existence of a female counterpart for the (usually male)flâneur. …